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Flacco became untradeable after the Broncos added dead money to his contract. He will carry a $23.65M cap number in 2020 with $13.6M in dead money. Why would the Steelers absorb this contract with Roethlisberger coming back next season?

At this point, the Steelers already accepted the idea of getting some high draft picks and reload for the 2020 season. However, they traded their 1st-round pick to the Dolphins for Minkah Fitzpatrick. A questionable move, to say the least.

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Flacco became untradeable after the Broncos added dead money to his contract. He will carry a $23.65M cap number in 2020 with $13.6M in dead money. Why would the Steelers absorb this contract with Roethlisberger coming back next season?

At this point, the Steelers already accepted the idea of getting some high draft picks and reload for the 2020 season. However, they traded their 1st-round pick to the Dolphins for Minkah Fitzpatrick. A questionable move, to say the least.

Actually that should make him tradeable since the signing bonus would have to be paid by us meaning he would only made around 800k/game for the rest of the season. WE would have to accomodate the signing bonus under the cap this year though which would require restructuring someone else to open up space.

Not that it will happen but if Pitt wants to send us what they have left of next years draft I say go for it and sign Sloter off the Cards PS to run the show.

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Quite aside from the cap logistics I think the Flacco restructure indicates the team sees him as the QB for this year and starting the next at the very least, so this has no way of happening. Quite aside from the fact that Brandon Allen is your starting QB the day after the trade comes, if we don't want inexplicable game-killing interceptions to also become a regular feature of Lock's game (as it seems to be with Flacco currently) we would be better off giving him a little more time to develop - and the assumption here is that if Flacco is traded then basically Lock gets thrown in there the minute he's healthy.

I understand the temptation to want to move on from Flacco but we need to make sure we have a better option before we do. Fans are allowed to give up on a season after week 5 but there's no way a brand new coaching staff or our GM should.....

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The Flacco hate is weird here. I mean I’m not a Flacco fan but I have been watching the games and he has probably been one of our best players this season.

Yeah... Just the fact that he doesn't drift back 13 yards before getting sacked like Keasum and Trev is a bonus. then sometimes he throws some nice strikes. Not a world beater but if we stop calling those dumb boot legs against a great top tier DE he should be looking like a top 12 QB.

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The Flacco hate is weird here. I mean I’m not a Flacco fan but I have been watching the games and he has probably been one of our best players this season.

I completely agree. Also not a fan, but his play has been solid. If you listen to people talk about it any place other than the Mane, they agree. And as Gaff said, this team should be 3-2 right now. Two losses aided by two BS roughing calls.

Now the monkey is off their back. It will be interesting to see how they go forward. The Titans can be had...

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I don't hate him and I do often feel compelled to defend him such is the swell of hatred we see here on the mane, but overall he's not great. His passer rating is currently at 90, which would have been all pro when I first started watching the NFL in the late 80s but these days is only good enough for 21st out of 28 QBs with 100 or more attempts this season. Top-ten Qbs have passer ratings in excess of 100 these days. Yes I know passer rating is not the whole story but its the only metric we really have for comparing QB performance accross the league.

That said, I do feel he's an upgrade over Keenum in a number of ways, some of them more tangible than others, and I also feel that his current contract is reasonable value when you compare it to his peers - his is 15th highest contract in the league in terms of annual average value - a little high perhaps - but not extortionate, and he does have a superbowl ring and 11 years as a starting QB on his resume.

Overall he's exactly what I hoped he would be: A solid vet, who can keep the offense humming as long as everything around him is also working well, and who provides a reasonable bar for any young draftee coming in to beat to take the job. He's not great, he's just OK, which is fine. We're spoiled for QBs here as we've had two of the best ever to play for us but they don't grow on trees, and people who are expecting manning-level play from any vet that comes in are insane.

If you don't like Flacco then fine, but tell us what you would have done if you were Elway. I've asked this before and although its not a rhetorical question - I really want to know - no-one has ever answered it, because - newsflash - there really were no better options out there. You could say start Lock but even before he was injured he was raw, and probably did need a year on the bench to be even serviceable.

Maybe Teddy Bridgewater …...that's the only guy out there I kinda wished we'd at least kicked the tyres on. But he is/was not a slam-dunk by any stretch if the imagination so I'm certainly not going to throw a fit over it.....

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If you don't like Flacco then fine, but tell us what you would have done if you were Elway. I've asked this before and although its not a rhetorical question - I really want to know - no-one has ever answered it, because - newsflash - there really were no better options out there. You could say start Lock but even before he was injured he was raw, and probably did need a year on the bench to be even serviceable.

Many people have answered that question since the day of the Flacco trade and the answer is obvious. Save a ton of money and a 4th round pick and keep the equally talented Keenum. We are already on the hook for a year of Keenum dead money, it would have made more sense to let hi finish out his contract while we transition to Lock. Then Keenum's deal would expire after this year and Lock would ideally remain the starter allowing us to go acquire a vet backup. Potentially even re-signing Keenum for cheap.

With Keenum instead of Flacco, we would save almost 30m in cap space over 2019-2020, have an extra 4th rounder, be right around the same place record-wise and still gearing up for Lock to take over around week 9 just like we are now.

You mention Flacco's passer rating amongst QBs with over 100 attempts. The only QBs worse off than Flacco in that regard are Dalton, Goff, and a slew of rookie/1st year players. Keenum sits two places above Flacco.

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That's because there's no shortage of an unhealthy obsession with next years draft around here. every year.

Which is what happens when you don't have a good football team we are 1-4 our season is over if a team like Pittsburgh who has no draft picks and 3rd string qb wants to trade some mid round picks to make a run why not?